Yay for accomplishing things!

In spite of being almost late to work this morning because I was fussing around with make-up, I've actually gotten quite a bit done. I basically started working on my annotated bibliography for my music class when I got in to work this morning (around 8 am), and I finished annotating 20 books in less than 2 hours. So, by 10 am, I had 2/3 of my project done, and it's not due until July 7th. I've got a little less than 2 weeks before this is due and I've already done 20/30 of the books for the project. The sucky thing is that it's only worth 30 points (1 point for each book) and I'll have put a lot of work into it by the time it's finished, but I guess it should be an easy 30 points, unless I completely screwed it up and it's nothing like what the instructor wants.

Now, if I can get all of my reading done for my classes tomorrow while I'm at work today, then I won't have to worry about that when I go home tonight after work. I'll be able to relax and enjoy a few hours of sunlight before I have to head to bed. I guess I don't have to be in bed too early tonight, but I don't want to spend my last 2-3 hours before bed working on reading because 1) nothing would put me to sleep faster, and 2) I don't like reading stuff the night before I need to have it read, so I'll feel better if I get it done sometime today.

So, if I get all of my reading done today, I'll feel very accomplished. I'm not usually able to do projects this far in advance, so maybe I'm actually learning how to pace myself? Or maybe, subconsiously, I'm just trying to get this done and out of the way so that I can worry about my bigger projects...? It seems like these 3-credit-hour education classes are always more work than my 5-credit-hour gen. ed. classes. It doesn't seem to matter to the instructors that we're not getting 5 credits for their class, and they have no problem piling on the assignments and projects. That's another thing about education classes: they're not usually test-oriented, but they do involve lots and lots of projects and presentations.

We're down to 3 1/2 weeks of classes and I'm starting to worry that that isn't enough time for me to finish everything with a passing grade. I knew that the summer quarter was an abreviated quarter to begin with (lasting 8 weeks instead of 10), but then I signed up for 2 classes that only last 5 weeks...what was I thinking? Probably that I really wanted to get them done and over with and still have something left of a summer to try and enjoy. I wonder, since I'll be working almost 30 hours a week this summer, if I'll actually get to enjoy myself, because it seems like I'm at work all the time as it is. I will really like having the extra money that those extra 9 hours a week will give me, but I know I won't enjoy losing the freedom that I could have had if I were only working 20 hours a week.

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Meg wrote in her blog about going to the zoo and that reminded me of how much I've been wanting to visit a zoo over the past couple of years. I can't remember visiting a zoo since I was like 10 and that really depresses me for some reason.

Yesterday, Jake mentioned going to a zoo or a museum sometime this summer to try and do some fun things before college starts up again in the fall. I told him that I'd rather visit a zoo, and he said that was fine, so maybe I'll actually get to go now...?

I should just randomly take off 1 day and head down to Columbus or Dayton and visit a zoo in 1 of those places. The only problem with that plan is that it's really no fun going to a zoo all by yourself. But, Sarah lives in Dayton, so maybe I can talk her into going with me? :)

I just realized that I was sort of rambling back there, so, sorry. I guess I'm a little tired right now and it just hit me. My eyes started to cross and my vision blurred, and I realized that I was getting to the point where I was going to start throwing random stuff out there. I'm glad that I caught myself in time, otherwise this post could have gotten pretty interesting. ;p